performing her former co-star kevin costner who we haven t heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? reporter: that s right. after doing a walk through of the church we re seeing some of the new security measures falling into place. for example, perhaps you ve noticed right away the biggest change, we re no longer allowed to stand in front of the church right across the street from it, but we have been pushed back across the street and behind a parking lot. the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that the celebrities and all the invite tees, some 1500 people, it s one of the parking
a mysterious new deseechls all five of them eventually died and all they had in common was a trashed immune system. they didn t know each other. they had no apparent connection. we now know they had aids. since then it s killed nearly 30 million people. 34 million more are living with hiv. that s the virus that causes aids. more than a million of them are in this country alone. this week i was part of an event to raise awareness and try to bretter fight back against hiv and aids. the beginning of the end of aids. i like the way that sounds. i like the way that sounds when i first heard it. i like the way that while some problems in d.c. seem too big, too difficult, this dev stating disease, we can tackle. we can put hiv/aids on the run, so to speak. the beginning of end of the aids is something that allows us to stand at that most perfect union of audacity. thing of what is audacious, that intersection, that s where we want to be. the organization s one and red have laid ou
they were on vacation in aruba. jeff rossen has been following the story from the beginning. this is just the latest chapter in what has been a very long story. a lot of developments of dev. this story has moved forward quite a bit even just this morning. gary giordano, by the way, has been in jail for 111 days, still not charged with anything, mind you. prosecutors asked for another 30-day extension while they continued to investigate. well, that hearing ended this morning in a bombshell decision. giordano s lawyers now tell next news that he will be released tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. because the judge denied the prosecutor s request. that means if prosecutors don t appeal. by the way, they say they are appealing, they want to go to the high court on monday, gary giordano could walk free and fly home to maryland, like i said, next week. it is as mysterious as they come. robyn gardner on vacation seemingly happy with gary
a moderate risk of severe storms as we make our way into the afternoon hours. as we have the daytime heating, that moisture streaming up from the gulf of mexico and the daytime heating, we could have strong thunderstorms, possibly tornadoes for the afternoon, evening and maybe into tomorrow. your complete forecast coming up in a few moments. again, it is rain on one side and fires on the other. busy day, no question. too bad we couldn t combine them. reynolds, thanks very much. we ll stay tuned with you all morning. joe biden getting in trouble sometimes. yeah. it often seems that when there s a public event, something goes wrong. well, this time it was not something he actually said, it was for him being a little too quiet. vice president joe biden seems to have been caught nodding off while the president was detailing his plan for the dev it is. look at the lady behind him. somebody behind him is really asleep. biden heard this speech like ten times.
having their b, c, d plans in place. i know it was stressful for many. the dev stays so severe ungeologist says it would be a miracle if the official toll is less than 10,000. but engineers are citing japan s strong building codes. infrastructure and city planning to keep houses away from the shore as reasons why the loss of human life isn t greater. all of this begging the question, how would the u.s. is fare in a similar disaster? with american infrastructure suffering from structural deficiencies in bridges, levees and leaking dams, are we prepared for a natural disaster of this magnitude? i m joined by jim harris in denver, a structural engineer specializing in earthquake design. in an event like this, it s almost impossible for everyone to be properly prepare. japan seems to have a high level of preparedness from an engineering standpoint. how are the buildings able to